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Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTHROPOLOGICAL, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We anchored in a bay under the island
Last Line: They are at once vile and intractable
Subject(s): Anthropology


BEHAVIOR OF MIRRORS ON EASTER ISLAND, by JULIO CORTAZAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you set up a mirror on the western side of easter
Last Line: In trenque lanquen county
Subject(s): Anthropology; Easter Island


COYOTE'S ANTHRO, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The anthropologist was very excited. He'd just received his
Last Line: Weren't sure of. And you, my friend, forgot to sing
Subject(s): Anthropology; Native Americans - History; Speech


EXCERPT FROM MANNIFEST MANNERS, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Native american indian literatures have been over burdened with
Last Line: Ries, are marooned as obscure moral simulations in translations
Subject(s): Anthropology; Books; Native Americans - Education; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting


GRIMM'S LAW; A NEW SONG, by CHARLES NEAVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Etymology once was a wild kind of thing
Last Line: That grimm's law was what caused the confusion at babel
Subject(s): Anthropology; Germany; Race Awareness


LEAP FROM A FOOTNOTE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss rae huffman of the american mission
Last Line: The leopard men in cattle camps, accepting their drug-coated cheese
Subject(s): Anthropology


NAKED APE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dinosaur died, and small
Last Line: With grasping hand and saucy wife, %the upright life
Subject(s): Anthropology


NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red
Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given
Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel


PARALLAX AT DJEBEL-MUTA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He strolled on desert cliffs; tumultuous sunset
Subject(s): Anthropology; Deserts


RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straw into gold - what's technology's
Last Line: Whose riddle, whose child, whose gold?
Subject(s): Anthropology; California - Gold Discoveries; Native Americans; Rumpelstiltskin


SUBWAY GRAFFITI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S IMPRESSIONS, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day-glo signs of survival
Last Line: Parngs of hair, toenail, %spirit and song
Subject(s): Anthropology; Cities; New York City; Subways; Travel


THE NAKED APE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dinosaur died, and small
Last Line: The upright life
Subject(s): Anthropology